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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is it possible to have aspergers and NOT be monotone:? |
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Posted: 03 Mar 2013, 11:32 am
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| boynexdoor77, I'm guessing you really mean you don't have a problem with what I believe is often referred to as "prosody" in the context of speech oddities among many on the autism spectrum. Specifically you don't believe you speak without the typical variation in intonation that others use. I don't... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What's the chance that Adam Lanza was autistic? |
| nonneurotypical |
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Posted: 25 Feb 2013, 3:38 pm
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| If they ever release the toxicology results at least we can know if he was intoxicated in one way or another. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What's the chance that Adam Lanza was autistic? |
| nonneurotypical |
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Posted: 25 Feb 2013, 3:29 pm
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| ...The toxicology report may be more important in understanding this case than the medical history, per any potential diagnosis of a disorder, unless he was prescribed a legal prescription for an issue like psychosis and was not taking the medication. This is one of the most interesting bits of spe... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: "Informative" Documentaries and unwanted children |
| nonneurotypical |
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Posted: 25 Feb 2013, 1:49 pm
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Replies: 12
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| What is a "DVD?" ...Just kidding. Yes it is available on DVD for region 1 at least (North America). |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: "Informative" Documentaries and unwanted children |
| nonneurotypical |
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Posted: 18 Feb 2013, 7:18 am
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| I am loving "Loving Lampposts." I just watched it on Amazon.com. |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Coin a word for discrimination of people on the spectrum! |
| nonneurotypical |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2012, 12:36 pm
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Replies: 44
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| This is one definition of Autist that struck me as ironic.... http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1696&context=wordways&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fscholar.google.com%2Fscholar%3Fstart%3D40%26q%3Dautist%26hl%3Den%26as_sdt%3D0%2C11#search=%22autist%22 TheSun... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Coin a word for discrimination of people on the spectrum! |
| nonneurotypical |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2012, 4:49 am
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| Thank you Cornflake. My googling is casual. Your is methodical compared to mine. This is the sort of use I have seen: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WFWJ465QdD8C&lpg=PA157&ots=ajzkTmTz46&dq=%22autist%22&pg=PA157#v=onepage&q=%22autist%22&f=false As for what I mean by forma... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: word to replace nurotypical |
| nonneurotypical |
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Posted: 28 Aug 2012, 3:58 am
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| I guess I like "neurotypical" myself. John Elder Robison has very overtly and intentionally used 'nypical" as a shortened form of the word in his latest book "Be Different". I can't say I'm very fond of the contraction. Neurotypical seems to have seeped into the literature about Asperger syndrome th... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Coin a word for discrimination of people on the spectrum! |
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Posted: 28 Aug 2012, 3:49 am
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| I know there are idiosyncratic uses of the term "autist,", but I don't seem to find anything showing a formal use of the term. I know the basic Greek etomology of "autism" and I don't see a use of the term "autist" there. Anyhow, if no one likes that suggestion, and people want to use it as a simple... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Coin a word for discrimination of people on the spectrum! |
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Posted: 25 Aug 2012, 7:57 pm
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| Autist is already used to describe autistic people. Where have you seen it used and by whom? I have read something that used the term once in passing as a novel term to refer indirectly to someone with autism in something old... I can't remember what. I thought it was Uta Frith or someone like that... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Coin a word for discrimination of people on the spectrum! |
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Posted: 25 Aug 2012, 11:36 am
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| I say we need not go far from home to coin a neologism for this purpose. There is a word that has been stuck in my brain for a while, which I suppose already has a bit of a meaning. However, the word does not really seem to be used as far as I can tell. We could hijack it. I would like to propose so... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Girl Who Commited Sex Attacks |
| nonneurotypical |
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Posted: 17 Aug 2012, 5:19 pm
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| It is amazing if it is true that someone with AS not only managed to get into not just one relationship, but two while pretending to be three different people. That is certainly something I could never do for a multitude of reasons, and certainly not when I was a teen. P.S. Read the National Autisti... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Young Man Denied Heart Transplant Because He's Autistic |
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Posted: 17 Aug 2012, 10:19 am
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Replies: 55
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Young Man Denied Heart Transplant Because He's Autistic |
| nonneurotypical |
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Posted: 15 Aug 2012, 6:55 pm
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| This story has been picked up by the Philadelphia Inquirer and ABC News. Read the story on philly.com here: http://articles.philly.com/2012-08-14/news/33201606_1_susan-brozena-transplant-evaluation-heart-transplant Read the story on abcnews.go.com here: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/autistic-man-deni... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Can't read emotions = Aspergers? |
| nonneurotypical |
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012, 9:16 am
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Replies: 5
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| According to Simon Baron-Cohen (and others) impaired empathy is associated with several conditions and Asperger syndrome is one of them. If I remember correctly, Autism/Asperger syndrome was the only condition that wasn't a personality disorder in what Baron-Cohen's work discusses. Here is a present... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Should I go for formal diagnosis? |
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012, 8:09 am
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| ... I'm not absolutely sure... don't know why (probably just another obsession - I always had obsession in systematics and perfect scientific data) ... If you have no real reason to question the diagnosis other than an innate drive to achieve the most precise measure, I'd say that alone is enough t... |
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